2 Mehr 1385

Events

• 1853 (173 years ago) Admiral Despointes formally takes possession of New Caledonia in the name of France.
• 1932 (94 years ago) Mahatma Gandhi and B. R. Ambedkar agree to the Poona Pact, which reserved seats in the Indian provincial legislatures for the "Depressed Classes" (Untouchables).
• 1954 (72 years ago) AEC Routemaster, the iconic London bus was introduced.
• 1954 (72 years ago) The Cochabamba–Santa Cruz highway connecting western and eastern Bolivia is inaugurated.
• 1959 (67 years ago) TAI Flight 307 crashes during takeoff from Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport in Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, killing 55 people.
• 1973 (53 years ago) Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal.
• 2005 (21 years ago) Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating portions of southwestern Louisiana and extreme southeastern Texas.
• 2023 (3 years ago) NASA's OSIRIS-REx capsule containing samples from the asteroid 101955 Bennu successfully lands back on Earth.

Births

• 15 (2011 years ago) Vitellius, Roman emperor (died 69)
• 1501 (525 years ago) Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, physician, and astrologer (died 1576)
• 1717 (309 years ago) Horace Walpole, English historian, author, and politician (died 1797)
• 1884 (142 years ago) İsmet İnönü, Turkish general and politician, 2nd President of Turkey (died 1973)
• 1896 (130 years ago) F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist and short story writer (died 1940)
• 1898 (128 years ago) Howard Florey, Australian pharmacologist and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1968)
• 1905 (121 years ago) Severo Ochoa, Spanish–American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1993)
• 1911 (115 years ago) Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party and de facto leader of the USSR (died 1985)

Deaths

• 366 (1660 years ago) Pope Liberius,
• 768 (1258 years ago) Pepin the Short, Frankish king (born 714)
• 1143 (883 years ago) Pope Innocent II,
• 1180 (846 years ago) Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (born 1118)
• 1541 (485 years ago) Paracelsus, German-Swiss physician, botanist, and chemist (born 1493)
• 1834 (192 years ago) Pedro I of Brazil,
• 1991 (35 years ago) Dr. Seuss, American children's book writer, poet, and illustrator (born 1904)
• 2004 (22 years ago) Françoise Sagan, French author and screenwriter (born 1935)

All 384 events, births and deaths of September 24